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Rushdie was recently stabbed in the neck and stomach by 24-year-old New Jersey man Hadi Matar when he was about to speak at an event at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York
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The 75-year-old, who was born in Bombay has been in the middle of controversy for many decades due to his novel, ‘The Satanic Verses’. The novel was considered by some clerics as disrespectful to the Prophet Mohammed.
The Mumbai-born author is on a ventilator with a damaged liver and may lose one of his eyes after he was stabbed multiple times in the neck and abdomen by a person on stage at a literary event in western New York.
Judges cannot pass 'off the cuff" remarks whilst dealing with sensitive cases particularly when such remarks can hurt the sentiments and emotions of affected sections of society.